Crooked Scales and the American Dream

Gloria Borger: I think the systemic form of crooked scales consists in bad tax laws, exorbitant interest rates, exploitative credit arrangements, and low wages. Those are all strategies whereby we put our hand on scale and create crooked weights so that some people can't participate equitably in the economy," she says. "They stack the cards for the people who own the scales against the people who depend on that kind of transaction"